All episodes
Saturday, 18 February 2023
- 8:10 Cyclone Gabrielle aftermath
- 8:40 Bob Harvey on Cyclone Gabrielle in Aucklands west coast
- 9:05 Dub legend Mad Professor
- 9:35 Prof Roger Lentle: can wild deer and conservation coexist?
- 10:05 Andrey Kurkov: One year on from the invasion of Ukraine
- 11:05 Nobel Peace Prize winning journalist Maria Ressa
- 11:35 Matt Baker: self repairing bacteria and de-extincting dodos
- 12:00 Listener feedback for 18 February 2023
Saturday, 11 February 2023
- 8:10 Welsh comedian Rob Brydon's musical trip
- 9:06 'Going online is not an innocent act' - Eleanor Catton on how technology is changing us
- 9:45 Danyl McLauchlan: Neoliberalism and New Zealand
- 10:05 Jemima Khan: new film inspired by her own marriage
- 10:33 Prof Huhana Smith: using biochar to restore whenua
- 11:05 Jenni Quilter: experiments in motherhood and technology
- 11:30 Kae Tempest: how creativity saved them from the storm
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 11 February 2023
Saturday, 4 February 2023
- 8:10 Filmmaker Sarah Polley: 'It was so egoless'
- 8:30 Prof Michelle Simmons: making machines at the atomic limit
- 9:05 Kevin Jared Hosein: hungry ghosts of Trinidad's colonial legacy
- 9:30 Byron C. Clark: fear and loathing in Aotearoa
- 10:05 John Otway: the success of rock 'n' roll's biggest failure
- 10:35 Megan Dunn on art: Joe L'Estrange and Nick Austin
- 11:06 Playing Favourites with Matterhorn founder Leon Surynt
- 11:55 Listener Feedback for 4 February 2023
Saturday, 28 January 2023
- 8:10 Coverage of the Auckland floods
- 8:15 Mayor Wayne Brown on the Auckland Floods
- 8:30 Prof Tim Jackson: Imagining life after capitalism
- 9:05 Playing Favourites with Robyn Malcolm
- 10:10 Prof Richard Taylor: bio-inspired technology improving the eye
- 10:35 Kevin Buley: Auckland Zoo turns 100
- 11:05 Fantastic Negrito - ancestors inspire gospel-psych-blues concept album
- 11:30 Morgan Davie: drama in the realm of Dungeons and Dragons
Saturday, 17 December 2022
- 8:10 Sam McAlister: the woman behind that Prince Andrew interview
- 8:40 Danyl McLauchlan: neurodiversity and me
- 9:07 Principal experimentalist explains nuclear fusion breakthrough
- 9:37 Lawrence Millman: was Santa tripping on magic mushrooms?
- 10:07 Brigid Delaney: how to be Stoic in Chaotic Times
- 10:35 Bee Dawson: the heroes of Otari-Wilton's bush
- 11:05 The best books of 2022 with Kate De Goldi and Laura Kroetsch
- 11:05 The best books of 2022 with Kate De Goldi and Laura Kroetsch
- 11:55 Saturday morning Listener Feed back
Saturday, 10 December 2022
- 8:12 Hon. Ralph Regenvanu: Vanuatu demands climate change justice
- 8:40 Prof Catherine Fowler: the greatest film you’ve never seen
- 9:05 Hugh Rennie: overcoming 150 years of NZ misrule in the Chathams
- 9:40 Jonathan McDowell: a year of space exploration in review
- 10:06 Brad DeLong: the modern dream slouches towards utopia
- 10:40 Jaye Pukepuke: the bro helping at-risk youth
- 11:06 Mike Parker Pearson: Stonehenge’s purpose and origins
- 11:43 Kate Louise Elliot: the power of theatre in a community
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 10 December 2022
Saturday, 3 December 2022
- 8:10 Vivian Wang: on the ground at China's zero-covid protests
- 9:05 Edda Mussolini and the rise and fall of fascism
- 9:40 Jonathan Drori: photosynthesis and an underground pitcher plant
- 10:05 Prof Mike Berridge: recognising vital work in cellular science
- 10:40 Mike Hewson: the fine art of taking risks
- 11:05 Jude Rogers: how popular music gets woven into our lives
- 12:00 Saturday Morning Feedback
- 5:35 Brett Gartrell: Avian influenza could devastate native birds
Saturday, 26 November 2022
- 8:10 Lina Abu Akleh: justice for the death of her journalist aunt
- 8:25 Fatboy Slim: right about now, the funk soul brother
- 9:05 Colm Tóibín: writing on changes in life, church and state
- 10:00 Josh Cheuse: staying rather than going with The Clash
- 11:10 Dr Matthew Phillips: could fasting and keto heal brains?
- 11:30 Gerard Hindmarsh: preserving stories of Nelson’s backcountry
- 11:59 Listener feedback for 26 November 2022
- 4:30 Kelly Francis: the Whenua Warrior cultivating food security
Saturday, 19 November 2022
- 8:00 Joyce Carol Oates: Author of Blonde unsettles with new novel inspired by '70s serial killer
- 8:10 Deepa Parent: why Iranian protesters won’t back down
- 8:30 Jacob Silverman: cryptocurrency and the golden age of fraud
- 9:30 Nick Bevin: distinguished saving our architectural heritage
- 10:05 Lynley Hargreaves: the stories of New Zealand's Glaciers
- 10:30 Fatu Feu'u: iconic artist changing the way the Pacific looks
- 11:30 Victoria Kelly: new music blending the secular and the sacred
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 19 November 2022
- 5:35 'They know we're coming for them' - Former NZ soldier says a Ukrainian victory feels possible
- 7:00 Satellite constellations threatening the night sky - astronomers
Saturday, 12 November 2022
- 8:10 Tariq Ali: Imran Khan and the future of Pakistan
- 8:35 Facial recognition expert claims Lord Lucan is alive
- 9:05 Musician Bill Callahan: leading people in and out of dreams
- 9:35 Karl Johnstone: protecting and fostering at-risk whakairo
- 10:05 Anke Richter: delving into the world of cults and control
- 10:35 Prof Simon Chadwick: the movement to boycott the Football World Cup
- 11:00 Saturday Morning Listener Feedback
- 11:05 Playing Favourites with Dame Gaylene Preston
Saturday, 5 November 2022
- 8:10 Katty Kay: is democracy on the ballot at US midterms?
- 8:40 Rhiannon Mackie: Young NZer fighting for justice at COP
- 9:05 Jacob Mchangama: the historical limits on free speech
- 9:35 David Farrier: playing cat and mouse with Mister Organ
- 10:05 Paul Diamond: the remarkable fall of Charles Mackay
- 10:35 Kath Irvine: time for planting ahead of summer
- 11:00 Saturday Morning Listener Feedback
- 11:05 Clinton Heylin: Bob Dylan on modern song
Saturday, 29 October 2022
- 8:13 Dame Valerie Adams: intimate film reveals our champion at her most vulnerable
- 8:45 Darian Woods: inflation and bank profits on Planet Money
- 9:08 Freya Daly Sadgrove: the different sides of a show pony
- 9:34 Lucien Rizos: the remarkable legacy of MP Gerald O’Brien
- 10:08 Rijula Das: different sides of Kolkata’s red light district
- 10:40 Danyl McLauchlan: proteins and the power of machine learning
- 11:06 Playing Favourites with Ebony Lamb
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 29 October 2022
Saturday, 22 October 2022
- 8:10 NZ can claim some of Booker Prize winner’s success
- 8:40 Ned Fletcher: are the English and Maori texts so different?
- 9:05 Karen O and Nick Zinner: the Yeah Yeah Yeahs still spitting
- 9:30 Dr Matt Baker: life on ancient Mars and Rubisco
- 10:05 Megan Dunn: what’s art got to do with mermaids?
- 10:30 Russell Tregonning: from sawing bones to sexism
- 11:05 Favourites with Lorde and Taylor Swift collaborator Joel Little
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 22 October 2022
Saturday, 15 October 2022
- 8:40 Prof Tim Bale: UK politics again in turmoil
- 9:30 Esther Perel: 'We are looking for the things we used to find in the divine'
- 11:05 Playing Favourites with fashion icon Doris de Pont
- 11:55 Saturday Morning listener feedback Saturday 15 October
- 2:10 Ian Johnson: Are major changes on the way for China?
- 4:05 Catherine Chidgey: life on the farm from a magpie eye’s view
- 5:35 Sally Gates: quantum physics inspired jazz metal fusion
- 3:05 Chris Parker: finding the extraordinary and the hilarious in the ordinary
Saturday, 8 October 2022
- 8:10 Roxana Saberi: ‘Iran will never be the same again’
- 9:05 Jamie McLellan: taking New Zealand design to the world
- 9:30 Dorian Llywelyn: miracles on the way to sainthood
- 10:05 Kris De Decker: can low-tech become the new hi-tech?
- 10:45 Nick Ascroft: a nearly award-winning word finder
- 11:05 Playing favourites with The Dunedin Study’s Richie Poulton
- 12:00 Saturday Morning Feedback from 8 October
- 7:30 Hannah Gadsby: Nanette, the show that changed stand-up comedy
Saturday, 1 October 2022
- 8:00 Dr Amir Khalil and the ‘world’s loneliest elephant’
- 9:05 Anne Fletcher: the women Antarctica left behind
- 9:40 Sam Afoullouss: searching for medicinal secrets in the deep sea
- 10:05 Leilani Farha: housing is a human right
- 10:40 Prof Neville Blampied: the role of nutrients in trauma
- 11:42 Jim Metzner: adventures of a lifelong listener
- 11:55 Listener Feedback
- 6:00 Ruby Tui: ‘You learn things at rock bottom’
Saturday, 24 September 2022
- 8:10 Carlos Dada: freedom of the press under El Salvador authoritarianism
- 8:30 Toby Manhire: reporting in from the local body campaign trail
- 9:05 Prof Daniel Pick: the fascinating history of thought control
- 9:35 Johanna Emeney and Sarah Laing: picturing Auckland’s famous bird lady
- 10:05 Helen Dew: Carterton’s legendary alternative currency trader
- 10:35 Robbie Burton: taking writing above the bushline
- 11:05 Playing Favourites with RNZ’s Bryan Crump
- 11:50 Saturday Morning Feedback for 24 September 2022
Saturday, 17 September 2022
- 8:10 Henry Reese: the man on stage with Salman Rushdie when he was attacked
- 8:40 Alex Pritz: how an Indigenous tribe is defending its land in Brazil
- 9:05 Netia Jones: Italian Horror-style Macbeth opera explores issues of power
- 9:35 Emily Writes: getting adult about raising children
- 10:05 Richard Osman: from solving quizzes to solving murders
- 11:05 Solomon Enos: envisioning a futuristic para-Polynesian society
- 11:30 Zenith Virago: the deathwalker rethinking the way we end life
- 11:55 Listener feedback 17 September 2022
Saturday, 10 September 2022
- 8:20 Queen lies at Balmoral, before a procession down the country
- 8:23 Queen's death: London correspondent say Britain is in mourning
- 8:27 Dame Jenny Shipley says the Queen was fun, curious, engaging
- 8:44 NZDF's Air Marshall Kevin Short discusses tributes to the Queen
- 8:47 Queen's death: Andrew Butler discusses legal logistics for NZ
- 8:53 Queen remembered for her kindness and generosity
- 9:16 Queen's death: Academic discusses Queen Elizabeth II
- 9:26 NZ historian discusses impact the Queen had for status of women
- 9:35 The Queen had strong relationship with many women in UK
- 9:42 Church of Scotland leader shares memories of the Queen
- 9:53 Royal museum owner shares memories of the Queen
- 10:05 Alice Snedden: taking on the confusing and contentious
- 10:35 Meng Foon: speaking out against racism
- 11:05 Playing Favourites with Sir Tīmoti Kāretu
Saturday, 3 September 2022
- 8:10 George Monbiot: presenting alternatives to farming
- 9:05 Jules Howard: what do dogs really think of us?
- 11:05 Playing Favourites with Emily Perkins
- 11:55 Listener Feedback for 3 September 2022
- 1:35 Toody Cole: Return of the living Dead Moon
- 7:05 Tame Iti: 'It's time to put that aside'
Saturday, 27 August 2022
- 8:10 Maggie O'Farrell: beauty & brutality in Renaissance Italy
- 9:04 Trevor Mallard: our Speaker of the House off to Ireland
- 9:40 Josephine Cachemaille: bringing back the 90s rave
- 10:04 Zarifa Gharafi: the mayor who faced the Taliban
- 10:35 Dr Deidre Brown: early Christian missions and taonga Maori
- 11:05 Playing Favourites with Sophie Henderson
- 11:50 Saturday Morning Feedback for 27 August 2022
Saturday, 20 August 2022
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- 8:10 Fintan O’Toole: documenting the evolutions of modern Ireland
- 9:10 June Nelson: a year with the seabirds of the Galápagos Islands
- 9:40 Megan Dunn: why art doesn’t have to play nice
- 10:10 Ben Novak: should we bring extinct animals back from the dead?
- 10:45 James Goggin: creating a more human design with Fuzzy Logic
- 11:10 Nick Bollinger: the rise and fall of counterculture in Aotearoa
Saturday, 13 August 2022
- 8:10 Tom Bower: Meghan’s interview with Oprah was ‘the last straw’
- 9:05 Rachel Kushner: reflections on running with The Hard Crowd
- 9:35 Dr Neil Shubin: the fish that evolved to walk but stayed in the water
- 10:05 Sharon Ready & Liz Gregory: standing up to the Gloriavale shepherds
- 10:40 Prof Peter McIntyre: could polio make a comeback?
- 11:05 Playing Favourites with musician Rutene Spooner
- 12:00 Saturday Morning Feedback for 13 August 2022
Saturday, 6 August 2022
- 8:10 Dr José Esparza: the mysterious virus that protects against monkeypox
- 9:07 Patrick Radden Keefe: collecting criminals and con artists for new book Rogues
- 10:05 The complicated legend of Leonard Cohen’s most famous song
- 11:07 Lynne O’Donnell & Massoud Hossaini: the fall of Kabul one year on
- 11:55 Listener feedback for 6 August 2022
- 2:40 Dr Nick Holm: how New Zealand comedy embraces being a bit s**t
- 4:35 Vanessa Braganza: decoding messages left by Catherine of Aragon
Saturday, 30 July 2022
- 8:13 Dov Forman: teen shares great-grandmother’s Holocaust survival story
- 8:39 Lisa Friedman: the US's massive new climate change bill
- 9:08 James Belich: how the Black Death led to the rise of Europe
- 10:06 Sir Anthony Seldon: what’s next for 10 Downing Street?
- 10:35 Catherine Martin: creating costumes that capture the Elvis wiggle
- 11:05 Fa'amoana John Luafutu: the story of a boy called Piano
- 11:30 Hilary Hahn: the violin virtuoso pushing musical boundaries
- 11:59 Listener feedback
